Difference between revisions of "Occult:This month in history/October"

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* '''12 October''' - The '''[[Salem Witch Trials]]''' are ended. ''(1692)''
* '''12 October''' - The '''[[Salem Witch Trials]]''' are ended. ''(1692)''
* '''12 October''' - Author and [[occultist]] '''[[Aleister Crowley]]''' is born. ''(1875)''
* '''12 October''' - Author and [[occultist]] '''[[Aleister Crowley]]''' is born. ''(1875)''
* '''12 October''' - Followers of '''[[María Lionza]]''' undertake their annual pilgrimage to Sorte Mountain in Venezuela.
* '''13 October''' - Hundreds of the '''[[Knights Templar]]''' in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to [[heresy]]. ''(1307)''
* '''13 October''' - Hundreds of the '''[[Knights Templar]]''' in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to [[heresy]]. ''(1307)''
* '''15 October''' - George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received the "From Hell" letter allegedly from '''[[Jack the Ripper]]'''. ''(1888)''
* '''15 October''' - George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received the "From Hell" letter allegedly from '''[[Jack the Ripper]]'''. ''(1888)''